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10:05 AM ET, April 1, 2021

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Washington Post:
Gaetz investigation complicated by overture to his father about ex-FBI agent who went missing  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican known for his fierce allegiance to former president Donald Trump, had been under Justice Department investigation for months for a possible sex crime …
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Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Gaetz ‘Extortion’ Figure's Levinson Obsession  —  Former USAF Intel officer Bob Kent raised $250,000 from ‘ex-CIA’ circles in aborted rescue plan years before approaching Trump Republican's father  —  The mystery man at the center of Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz's charges …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Tucker Carlson livid after Rep. Matt Gaetz tries to rope him into controversy, source says  —  New York (CNN Business)Fox News host Tucker Carlson was angered after Congressman Matt Gaetz attempted to rope him into a scandal involving allegations related to sex trafficking of a minor, a person familiar with the matter said.
ABC News:
Feds looking beyond Florida in investigation of Rep. Gaetz, sources say  —  “I have not had a relationship with a 17-year-old,” Gaetz said Tuesday night.  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images, FILE  —  The federal investigation …
Discussion: MSNBC, Raw Story and Eschaton
Thomas Moore / The Hill:   Fox has no interest in hiring Matt Gaetz
Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Documents detail wild alleged $25 million Gaetz extortion scheme
The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz: I've Talked With Newsmax, OAN, and Fox About Potential Post-Congress Gigs
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Election-Reform Deception  —  He has his facts wrong on Iowa and Georgia and applies standards inconsistently.  —  In last week's press conference, President Biden labeled Republican efforts to reform state election laws in Georgia and Iowa as “un-American” and “sick.”
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Brennan Center for Justice:   Voting Laws Roundup: March 2021
Washington Examiner:
Why all the lies about Georgia's new voting law?
Discussion: IJR and The Nation
95.5 WSB:
Delta CEO blasts Georgia voting law, calling it “unacceptable”; Gov. Kemp responds
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The Pandemic's Wrongest Man  —  The pandemic has made fools of many forecasters.  Just about all of the predictions whiffed.  Anthony Fauci was wrong about masks.  California was wrong about the outdoors.  New York was wrong about the subways.  I was wrong about the necessary cost of pandemic relief.
Discussion: Raw Story
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The infrastructure plan is Exhibit A in the paradox of Bidenism  —  Although he may not have planned it, President Biden picked an auspicious date for unveiling his big infrastructure program.  Exactly 34 years ago Wednesday — March 31, 1987 — the House voted overwhelmingly across party lines …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
40 Years After Reagan, a Bet Big Government Can Get Something Done
Discussion: Common Dreams
Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
Biden Is Too Worried About the Deficit, Not Worried Enough About Climate Change
New York Times:
Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is delayed by a U.S. factory mixup.  —  Workers at a plant in Baltimore manufacturing two coronavirus vaccines accidentally conflated the ingredients several weeks ago, contaminating up to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine and forcing regulators …
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Politico:
White House knew more than a week ago of J&J contractor vaccine-supply problems
New York Times:
As Cuomo Sought $4 Million Book Deal, Aides Hid Damaging Death Toll  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo boasted, “I am not a superhero,” in early versions of his book, drafted as his aides scrubbed a politically damaging Health Department report.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — As the coronavirus subsided in New York last year …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Obama Cabinet official took undisclosed foreign cash  —  Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took $50,000 from an associate of a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire at the center of a sprawling scheme of illegal foreign campaign contributions, federal prosecutors revealed Wednesday.
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New York Times:
N.Y. Seeks Trump Insider's Records, in Apparent Bid to Gain Cooperation  —  State prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed the personal bank records of the Trump Organization's longtime C.F.O. and are scrutinizing gifts he received from the former president.  —  State prosecutors …
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump's own statements in old lawsuit could haunt him in a future criminal case
Discussion: Raw Story
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Biden's infrastructure plan faces controversy over price tag and design  —  While there's widespread support for a large infrastructure bill, the details, especially Biden's plan to pay for it, are drawing early fire  —  When the White House released what it hailed as its historic infrastructure …
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People.com:
Sarah Palin Reveals COVID Diagnosis and ‘Bizarre’ Symptoms, Urges Others to Continue Wearing Masks  —  “My case is perhaps one of those that proves anyone can catch this,” Palin tells PEOPLE  —  Sarah Palin has tested positive for COVID-19, and she's urging others to continue taking the pandemic seriously.
Washington Post:
New York authorities file hate-crime charges in attack on Asian American woman  —  NEW YORK — Local authorities said Wednesday they have filed three felony hate-crime charges against 38-year-old Brandon Elliot in the brutal stomping of an elderly Asian American woman …
Discussion: Insider
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘My God’: Former White House lawyer says ‘Donald Trump is in serious trouble’ with new lawsuit  —  Former acting White House Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that the new lawsuit in Washington, D.C. court saying former President Donald Trump is to blame …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Steve Berkowitz / USA Today:
Supreme Court justices grill NCAA, calling arguments ‘entirely circular’ and ‘somewhat disturbing’  —  The Supreme Court's justices on Wednesday expressed significant questions about the NCAA's athlete-compensation limits, but they also showed concerns that a case challenging those limits …
Discussion: Politico, Breitbart, Insider and CBS News
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Apple's Tim Cook says voting “ought to be easier than ever”  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook, an Alabama native with a lifelong interest in civil rights, joins condemnations of Georgia's new voting law, in a statement provided first to Axios.  —  What he's saying: “The right to vote is fundamental in a democracy.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Insider
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
Is OBAMA now cancelled?  Latino activists oppose Chicago suburb naming school after Barack and Michelle because ex-president was ‘the deporter-in-chief’  — Waukegan, Illinois board mulls renaming Thomas Jefferson Middle School  — Latino activists on Tuesday demanded school not be renamed after the Obamas
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Texas officials circulated climate skeptic's talking points on power failures during storm  —  WASHINGTON — As millions of Texans went without power for days during February's devastating storm, Texas oil and gas regulators were circulating talking points from a noted climate skeptic blaming system failures …
William Saletan / Slate:
The Bogus Rap on Deborah Birx  —  Her critics think she lied for Trump while Fauci stood up to him.  The truth is way more complicated.  —  Deborah Birx, the former response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, is widely hated.  According to her critics …
 
 
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Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
An Accidental Disclosure Exposes a $1 Billion Tax Fight With Bristol Myers
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Trimming Forces Sent to Mideast to Help Saudi Arabia
Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Rep. Adam Kinzinger raises $1.1 million for his anti-Trump PAC in first quarter, and an equal amount for his reelection fund
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Pamela Falk / CBS News:
U.N. special envoy warns “a bloodbath is imminent” in Myanmar if Security Council does not act
Politico:
Inside the ‘Lord of the Flies’ factionalism now plaguing Trumpland
Discussion: Raw Story
US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Continues to Advance Over-the Counter and Other Screening Test Development
Discussion: New York Times and NPR
Bloomberg:
Facebook Built the Perfect Platform for Covid Vaccine Conspiracies
 Earlier Items: 
Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
Biden's aims to bankrupt a generation
Jane Recker / Washingtonian:
A Donald Trump Painting Is Coming to the National Portrait Gallery
Discussion: The Hill
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Navalny goes on hunger strike in protest at prison treatment
CREW:
DHS IG should investigate Ken Cuccinelli's invalid immigration enforcement agreements
Jeremy Duda / Arizona Mirror:
Arizona Senate hires a ‘Stop the Steal’ advocate to lead 2020 election audit
Discussion: Arizona Republic and USA Today
Ryan Heath / Politico:
Ivanka Trump's flagship policy program slammed by government auditors
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and The Hill